Church

The National Monuments Service's description

On a slight rise or platform in the W half of a graveyard (MA071-169002), located on the W bank of the Pollagh River, 240m S of its confluence with the Glore and Gwestion Rivers.
Ruined, roofless rectangular building (16.85m ESE−WNW; 8.5m NNW−SSE) with walls (T c. 1.1m) constructed of mortared random rubble still standing to a height of c. 3m.
The 1838 OS Letters recorded that at the church was in a very bad state of preservation: ‘The doorway on the south side wall near the west gable has now become a breach...There was a window in this wall near the east gable which is now broken at top and battered on each side outwardly.’ (O’Flanagan 1927, 389-390 (160)).
A Fás scheme undertook extensive works here in the late 20th-century, including repointing of the walls and reconstruction of doors and windows. These features appear now as follows: Round arched doorway with drawbar sockets on either side, located towards W end of S wall; narrow pointed arched doorway (Wth 0.61m; H 1.73) in the N wall; window (Wth 0.26m; H 0.89m) with cut-stone surround and ogee-head in an inwardly-splayed embrasure, at E end of S wall; window (Wth 0.29m; H 1.25m) in E gable with cut-stone surround in a broad inwardly-splayed embrasure.
There are 18th and 19th-century graves in the church interior, including one table tomb and several graves slabs. The ground surface is overspread with gravel.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 September 2021

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.